2. HETEROSEXISM
• a system of attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of opposite-sex sexuality and
relationships.
3.
4. • Gay and lesbian youth are 2 to 6 times more likely to
attempt suicide than heterosexual youth.
5. • Gay students hear anti-gay slurs as often as 26 times
each day; faculty intervention occurs in only about 3% of
those cases.
6. • In a study of 194 gay and lesbian youth, 25% were
verbally abused by parents, and nearly 10% dealt with
threatened or actual violence.
7. • 50% of all gay and lesbian youth report that their
parents reject them due to their sexual orientation.
8. • In Seattle, 34% of students who described themselves as gay,
lesbian or bisexual reported being the target of anti-gay
harassment or violence at school or on the way to or from school,
compared to 6% of heterosexual students.
